Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has praised the state’s pardon and parole board for denying clemency to a death row inmate.

Corey Smith, the John Doe Gang leader during the ’90s in Miami’s Liberty City, has been fighting in state and federal courts ...

One of the four individuals charged in the tragic shooting of rapper Pop Smoke in Hollywood Hills stepped up and pleaded ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

The death penalty is being considered for a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and taking his daughters to Mexico.

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The decision was a blow to prosecutors pursuing the longest-running death-penalty case in the military commission system.

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

A new short documentary explores the life of death-row prisoner John Henry Ramirez before he was executed in 2022. “I Am ...